<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 November 2014 14:40, Sunday Folayan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfolayan@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfolayan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3y7" class="" style="overflow:hidden">They would not have considered Nigeria or Kenya because of the<br>
unspoken fear of Boko-Haram and Al-Shebab. Indeed Nigeria has been<br>
bidding to host for a number of years now, and it is silently passed<br>
each time.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Please don't buy that hogwash. It's neo-colonial reasoning. Just last week (1,2), World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, with a High-level representatives of the European Union, Intergovernmental Agency for Development, African Union Commission, the African Development Bank as well as the president of the Islamic Development Bank Group, Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali, were in Nairobi in bilateral talks.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Although vigilance helps, insecurity is everywhere and anybody can be caught wrong footed. London underground was bombed silly in 2005 (may the souls of the departed rest in peace), and England authorities were helpless. Apart from 9/11, US has had more violent gun killings than what alshabab has ever done to Kenya in the last 10 years.<br><br>Best,<br>MK<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/10/27/leaders-commit-billions-major-new-development-initiative-horn-africa">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/10/27/leaders-commit-billions-major-new-development-initiative-horn-africa</a><br>2. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br>L: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lordmwesh" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lordmwesh</a><br>B: <a href="http://lord.me.ke/" target="_blank">http://lord.me.ke/</a><br>T: <a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh" target="_blank">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><br><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap">"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson</span><br></div></div></div></div>
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